“The union that represents stage performers announced this week that it would cease using the title ‘Gypsy Robe’ to describe one of its most cherished insider rituals — the passing of a colorful patchwork garment from one chorus to another on a Broadway show’s opening night — citing the potential offense to Roma people.” Some performers are not happy with this decision.
Tag: 04.20.18
The Turner Prizewinner Who’s Using Her Fame And Fortune To Help Others Up The Ladder
Lubaina Himid won the prize in 2017 and has shows planned all over Europe this year. “All were programmed before the prize was announced, but Ms. Himid is now using her enhanced clout to request that galleries showing her work reach out to black artists living and working nearby and include them in events like talks and debates that run with the exhibitions. If curators say there are no black artists working in their region, as Ms. Himid said they often do, she provides them with names drawn from an extensive network she has built up over many years.”
A Court In Mexico Has Blocked Sales Of The Frida Kahlo Barbie Doll
Mattel’s been met with a temporary injunction after “Kahlo’s great-niece Mara de Anda Romeo argued in a Mexican court that Mattel does not have the rights to use Kahlo’s image as part of its Inspiring Women series.” The toymaker had permission from the Frida Kahlo Corporation, but not (some of) Kahlo’s family members.
When You’re One Of TV’s Rare Latina Leads, You Have To Prove Yourself In Many Arenas (Including The Climbing Wall)
Jaina Lee Ortiz is starring in a show about firefighters, so naturally, she “signed herself up for the firefighter’s Candidate Physical Abilities Test as soon as she landed the Station 19 role, running up flights of stairs in weighted gear, dragging a 165-pound dummy out of a building.” And going on climbing walls for “moving meditation,” of course.
When Australia Comes To U.S. Streaming, At Least One Actor Seems To Be Everywhere
Look, Australia only has about 24 million people, and not that many of them are in acting. So that means, when U.S. streaming services start bringing in the Aussie content by the bucketful, the viewing public is going to get the familiar “British actor” feeling (“What’s Snape doing as King Louis?”), except in an Australian accent.
Changing Up The ‘History’ Part Of Art History In Museums To Mix Old, New, And Whatever Else Fits
The museum buzzword is “transhistorical,” and it’s being applied to everything from Franz Hals paintings to the Met’s big “Unfinished” exhibition from 2016. “Suzanne Sanders, an art historian in Amsterdam, who organized conferences on ‘The Transhistorical Museum’ in 2015 and 2016, calls transhistorical curating ‘the most urgent thing curators are doing in trying to reinvent the museum to create some sort of new paradigm.'”
Troubled Los Angeles Gallery CB1 To Close After Artists Say They Weren’t Paid
CB1 will close when the current show closes, after claiming they were having cash-flow problems. “Those cash-flow issues are what prompted a group of artists to publish an open letter alleging that CB1 Gallery had ‘consistently failed’ to pay artists according to the terms of its contracts, wrote checks that bounced and repeatedly sold work without informing them.”
Philip Glass Talks About His Life In Music
When I do concerts I often give talks to students. They get them together, and I talk to them in the afternoon, and we talk about music. Not too long ago one young fellow, he said, “Tell me one thing that I can take away from this talk that I’ll remember and that’s important.” And I said, “No, I’ll give you one word.” He said, “What’s that?” I said, “Independence.”
‘Disney For A Despot’: How Saddam Hussein Turned The Ruins Of Babylon Into A Propaganda Vehicle
“For Saddam, the ruined city of Babylon had always held a special fascination. He ordered an ambitious reconstruction of the city’s walls, costing millions of dollars at the height of the Iran-Iraq War. … When archaeologists told him that ancient kings like Nebuchadnezzar had stamped their names on Babylon’s bricks, Saddam insisted that his own name be stamped on the modern bricks used in the reconstruction. … In 1981, Babylon was where celebrations took place to commemorate the first anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Iran, with officials using the slogan, Nebuchadnasar al-ams Saddam Hussein al-yawm (yesterday Nebuchadnezzar, today Saddam Hussein).”
How Can Arts Orgs’ Boards Help Combat Harassment? Talk To The Artists
Pia Catton: “For non-profits, misconduct can pose a real threat to funding. Foundations don’t want molesters and predators operating with those they fund. Why should individual donors give to theatres turning a blind eye? If people act that way, a new level of board involvement in hiring and oversight is needed. One path to that is more direct input from artists about what’s happening in the company and during the hiring process. … There is no shortage of knowledge among artists and their peers about who’s handsy, manipulative or abusive.”